The Backwards Pumpkin Song · Dance Gavin Dance

157 bars at 156 BPM -- fast, and 4:02 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
156 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
157
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 57-59, 61-63 and 65-67, and 7 more places -- 15.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 156 BPM
THE BACKWARDS PUMPKIN SONG · BAR 57
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 2, 14, 18, 22, 28, 32 and 17 more.

LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

157 bars across 11 sections: 112 keep time, 23 are fills and 9 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 134-146.

PART C
PART E
PART I
CHORUS
PART W
PART Z
PART AC
PART AE
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesSICAHW+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Backwards Pumpkin Song?

156 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is The Backwards Pumpkin Song hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

157 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 20 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in The Backwards Pumpkin Song?

13 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 2, 14, 18, 22, 28, 32 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 157 BARS ANALYSED
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